Democracy, Agency and the State: Theory with Comparative Intent, de Guillermo ODonnell, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011, 264 pp. Democracy and the Limits of Self-Govern-ment, de Adam Przeworski, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010, 200 pp. - Mauricio Rivera (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, A.C., 2013)